We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
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Overview
’Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we seek’
In his speeches as president, Barack Obama had the power to move people from all over the world as few leaders before him. We Are the Change We Seek is a collection of twenty-seven of Obama’s greatest speeches, covering the issues most important to our time: war, inequality, race relations, gun violence and human rights. With brief introductory remarks explaining the context for each speech, this is a book to inform, illuminate and inspire, providing invaluable insight into a groundbreaking and era-defining presidency.
’We have been given the first partial, though still substantive, look at Obama’s words, and it is a political partisan’s dream to see them so finely gathered here’ Washington Post
Will be published a decade following Obama’s election in 2008, when nostalgia for Obama will be at its height
Editors E.J. Dionne and Joy Reid are correspondents for major media outlets in the US with unique and expert insight
A thoughtfully chosen selection ... We see Obama in hope-mongering high style; we see him negotiating tricky questions with forensic intelligence; we see him on the attack and we see him in grief ... Excellent
We have been given the first partial, though still substantive, look at Obama’s words, and it is a political partisan’s dream to see them so finely gathered here
- Title: We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
- Authors: Joy-Ann Reid, Jr. E. J. Dionne
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781408892442, 9781408889053, 1408889056, 1408892448
- Resource ID: LLS:9781408892442
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-08-25T07:39:49Z
E.J. Dionne, Jr. is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, and a university professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University. He is the author of six books. The most recent are Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism - From Goldwater to Trump and Beyond, published by Simon & Schuster in 2016, and Our Divided Political Heart, published by Bloomsbury in 2012.
Joy-Ann (Joy) Reid is a political analyst and the host of "AM Joy" which airs weekend mornings on MSNBC. She is the author of Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide, published by William Morrow in September 2015, and released in paperback in September 2016.